Jefferson County, Nebraska

Denominational Groups, 2000

2,589	3,217		685	1	1,841
Evangelical Protestant	Mainline Protestant	Orthodox	Catholic	Other	Unclaimed

Congregational "adherents" include all full members, their children, and others who regularly attend services. The historically African American denominations are not included in the 2000 congregation and membership totals. Many are also missing in 1990 and most historically African American denominations are missing in the 1980 reports.
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Reports

^ Religious Bodies	Theology	Congregations	Adherents	Adherence Rate^†
American Baptist Churches in the USA	Mainline Protestant	1	345	35.1
Assemblies of God	Evangelical Protestant	1	75	7.6
Catholic Church	Catholic	1	676	68.9
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)	Mainline Protestant	1	430	43.8
Church of God (Anderson, Indiana)	Evangelical Protestant	1	117	11.9
Church of the Nazarene	Evangelical Protestant	1	67	6.8
Churches of Christ	Evangelical Protestant	1	18	1.8
Episcopal Church	Mainline Protestant	1	75	7.6
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America	Mainline Protestant	4	1,207	123.0
Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches	Evangelical Protestant	1	116	11.8
International Church of the Foursquare Gospel	Evangelical Protestant	1	127	12.9
Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod	Evangelical Protestant	5	1,638	166.9
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)	Mainline Protestant	2	628	64.0
Seventh-day Adventist Church	Evangelical Protestant	1	53	5.4
United Church of Christ	Mainline Protestant	5	540	55.0
United Methodist Church, The	Mainline Protestant	4	1,280	130.4
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod	Evangelical Protestant	1	406	41.4
	*Totals (Unadjusted)^:**	32	7,798

The population of this county (or equivalent) in 1980 was 9,817. The adherent totals of the religious groups listed above (7,798) include 79.4% of the total population in 1980.

Source

The 1980 data were collected by the Glenmary Research Center and includes statistics for 111 Judeo-Christian church bodies, including number of churches and adherents. These data originally appeared in Churches and Church Membership in the United States, 1980, published by the Glenmary Research Center.

^†The adherence rate provides the number of adherents of a particular group per 1,000 population. For example, in 2000 the Episcopal Church had an adherence rate of approximately 8 (8.1) in Autauga County, Alabama. This means that 8 out of every 1,000 people in Autauga county are Episcopalian.